By title
Abbeville by Jack Fuller
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
“Alpha and Omega” from On the Prowl by Patricia Briggs
All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones
America, America by Ethan Canin
American Cream by Catherine Tudish
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (mini-review)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (mini-review)
Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade by Patrick Dennis
The Autumn Castle by Kim Wilkins
Bab: A Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
The Best American Travel Writing 2006 edited by Tim Cahill
The Best American Travel Writing 2009 edited by Simon Winchester
The Best Travel Writing 2008 edited by James O’Reilly, Larry Habegger, and Sean O’Reilly
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehesi Coates
The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny by Nicholas Carr
Black Mountain Breakdown by Lee Smith
Blankets by Craig Thompson
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Blood Cross by Faith Hunter
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs
Boo by Rene Gutteridge
Brazilian Adventure – Peter Fleming
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild
Buying Time by Pamela Samuels Young
The Call by Yannick Murphy
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Castle Waiting (Volumes I and II) by Linda Medley
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Cat Dancers by P. T. Deutermann
Cathy’s Book: If Found Call (650) 266-8233 by Jordan Weisman
Chanel: Collections and Creations by Daniele Bott
Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness
The Chimes by Anna Smaill
China Trade by S. J. Rozan
A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The City & The City by China Mieville
City of Bones (mini-review) by Cassandra Clare
City of Trees by Melanie Choukas-Bradley
Claudine at School by Colette
A Climate for Change by Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher #1) by Kerry Greenwood
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Cold Hit by Linda Fairstein
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church
Counter Culture by Candacy A. Taylor
A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotsen
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
County Chronicle by Angela Thirkell
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Crocodile on a Sandbank (Amelia Peabody #1) by Elizabeth Peters (mini-review)
Crossing Washington Square by Joanne Rendell
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega #1) by Patricia Briggs
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
The Dashwood Sisters Tell All by Beth Pattillo
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
A Day in a Medieval City by Chiara Frugoni
Dead Run by P. J. Tracy
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
Defiance by Nechama Tec
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks by Susan Casey
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
Diplomatic Incidents by Cherry Denman
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Ditched by Dr. Right: And Other Distress Signals From the Edge of Polite Society by Elizabeth Warner
Divergent (mini-review) by Veronica Roth
The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A. S. Byatt
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
A Drink Before the War by Dennis LeHane
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Eagle Catcher by Margaret Coel
East by Edith Pattou
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Eifelheim by Michael Flynn
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
The Escape by Mary Balogh
Evia by Sara Wheeler
Fables: The Deluxe Edition, Book One by Bill Willingham
Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Farthing by Jo Walton
Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1960’s by Paula Reed & the Design Museum
Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
The F0rever War by Joe Haldeman
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frederica by Georgette Heyer
Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Game Change by John Heilemann with Mark Halperin
A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum
Giants of the Frost by Kim Wilkins
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Re-read review)
gods in alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker by Tim Gallagher
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
The Hard Way by Lee Child
Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Heart of Christianity by Marcus J. Borg
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle
A History of the Middle East: Second Edition by Peter Mansfield
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea by Joel Achenbach
Honeymoon in Tehran by Azadeh Moaveni
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Howards End by E.M. Forster
How to Achieve a Heaven on Earth – Edited by John E. Wade III
How to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (mini-review)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs
Hush: An Irish Princess’ Tale by Donna Jo Napoli
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
In The Woods by Tana French
Intimate: An American Family Photo Album by Paisley Rekdal
Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O’Hanlon
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
It Happened One Wedding by Julie James
It’s Not All Flowers and Sausages by Mrs. Mimi
Jack and Rochelle by Jack and Rochelle Sutin
Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
Johnny Hiro: Half-Asian, All Hero by Fred Chao
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Just One of the Guys by Kristan Higgins
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Kindred by Octavia Butler
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
La’s Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
The Last Werewolf – Glen Duncan [DNF review]
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibigiza
Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr
Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor
Little Face by Sophie Hannah
Live Bait by P. J. Tracy
The Lonely Patient: How We Experience Illness by Dr. Michael Stein
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
Love The One You’re With by Emily Giffin
Making Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt
The Malfine Trilogy (Let There Be Blood, The Egyptian Coffin, and The Fool’s Gold) by Jane Jakeman
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (book/movie comparison)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy
The Moonpool (Cam Richter #3) by P.T. Deutermann
Mouse Guard Fall 1152 by David Petersen
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
The New York Regional Mormons Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine
Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan
The Nurses by Alexandra Robbins
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
On Agate Hill by Lee Smith
Once Upon a Marquess by Courtney Milan
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick
One Day by David Nicholls
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers introduced by Michael Palin
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 – 1963 by Taylor Branch
The Passage by Justin Cronin
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Patience of Ice by Renate Wood
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963 – 1965 by Taylor Branch
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
Poltergeist by Kat Richardson
Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
River Marked by Patricia Briggs
The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway
River Secrets by Shannon Hale
The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley (mini-review)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
Saving Grace by Lee Smith
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
Shoot to Thrill (Monkeewrench #5) by P. J. Tracy
The Shunning by Beverly Lewis
Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs
Silver Like Dust by Kimi Cunningham Grant
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
Situations Matter by Sam Sommers
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiassen
Skinwalker by Faith Hunter
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher
Smile by Raina Telgemeier
Snow Blind by P. J. Tracy
So Big by Edna Ferber
Something About You by Julie James
Something Missing by Matthew Dicks
Specials by Scott Westerfield
Spider Mountain by P. T. Deutermann
The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
Stasiland by Anna Funder
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
Swampwalker’s Journal: A Wetlands Year by David M. Carroll
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin
Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
They Were Still Born: Personal Stories about Stillbirth edited by Janel Atlas
This is Running for Your Life: Essays by Michelle Orange
Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell
Too Big to Know by David Weinberger
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
Touchstone by Laurie R. King
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Trade Me by Courtney Milan
Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Valeria’s Last Stand by Marc Fitten
VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 by Mark Bittman
The Veil of Gold by Kim Wilkins
Veil of Lies (Crispin Guest #1) by Jeri Westerson
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Weekends at Bellevue by Julie Holland
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
We Were an Island: The Maine Life of Art and Nan Kellam by Peter Blanchard III
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by Philip Gourevitch
What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (mini-review)
Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
A Woman Entangled by Cecilia Grant
The Woman in White (post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4) by Wilkie Collins
The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up by Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
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